MURFREESBORO — Middle Tennessee State University has released the names and hometowns of students who graduated during the fall 2010 commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 18, in Murphy Center on the MTSU campus.

Of the 1,646 who were set to graduate during the university’s fall commencement, 1,378 were undergraduates and 268 were graduate students, including 247 master’s candidates, 12 education specialist recipients and 5 doctoral candidates.

The dual-commencement event featured J. Stanley Rogers, senior partner with the Rogers & Duncan law firm in Manchester, Tenn. addressing the morning graduates and State Sen. Randy McNally, R-5th District speaking to the afternoon graduates.

Graduates from the College of Graduate Studies, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, and College of Education and Behavioral Sciences received their degrees in the morning ceremony, while degrees were conferred upon candidates in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Mass Communication, and the College of Continuing Education and Distance Learning, during the afternoon event.